Emily Larson Email Address

CENTCOM Regional Program Lead

The Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) is the voice of the world's information technology (IT) industry. Its members are the companies at the forefront of innovation; and the professionals responsible for maximizing the benefits organizations receive from their investments in technology. CompTIA is dedicated to advancing industry growth through its educational programs, market research, networking events, professional certifications, and public policy advocacy.

Eric Larson has worked in the journalism, nonprofit, and multimedia production fields since 1993 when he graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in English from Duke University. He served as a staff writer at the Anniston Star newspaper from 1993-1996, where he won First Place Alabama Associated Press awards for community service writing (1994) and deadline reporting (1995). As a freelance writer for magazines, he worked as Newsweek Magazine’s stringer for Alabama and Mississippi (1996-1998), reporting on such topics as HIV drug shortages, the school shooting in Pearl, Miss., and the Birmingham abortion clinic bombing.In 1998 Eric took a sabbatical from journalism to work as the in-home assistant to the late author and Duke professor Reynolds Price, a paraplegic and author of A Whole New Life, Kate Vaiden, and other works. It was during this time that he attended a movie production workshop held at the School of the Arts in Winston-Salem. In 2000-2001, Eric successfully solicited over $6 million as public grant writer for the AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin. As a U.S. Peace Corps health volunteer (2001-2003) in the Republic of Kiribati, he worked with over 400 islanders to produce The Curse (2003), a full-length feature movie about an island youth confronted with alcohol abuse. In 2005, he and his wife, Marian, founded Stellar Media to provide high quality writing, video, and multimedia services; they sold the company in 2010 to the Mountaineer Publishing Company of Waynesville, N.C.Today the couple live in Raleigh, where Eric works remotely from a home-based office promoting the Chicago-based Creating IT Futures Foundation, which is dedicated to empowering those in need to train for, secure, and be successful in an IT career.Specialties: Communications and PR, script writing, media project management, video production.